Carolene

given name · Latin script

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025

Pronunciation:

Carolene is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • BBBarbados≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GYGuyana1 in 94K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 400Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

513 people, 2020

Record sources
144 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)

Barbados, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Carolene counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Carolene is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5131 in 648K512Carolene144
PH Philippines≈290 est.≈1 in 400K—Carolene15
ZA South Africa≈140 est.≈1 in 459K—Carolene7
BR Brazil1301 in 1.6M136——
IN India≈120 est.≈1 in 12M—Carolene12
CA Canada≈100 est.≈1 in 396K—Carolene23
IE Ireland≈26 est.≈1 in 206K—Carolene1
GY Guyana81 in 94K8—2
BB Barbados≈4 est.≈1 in 63K1—4

513 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the bb-ebc-voter-slices-2025 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Carolene is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Philippines, Canada

    Also written Carolène, Caroléne

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHi Carolene,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Carolene
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020512#20,212
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—136#18,187
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022130—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—130#34,267
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—123#32,920
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2000101—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)199077—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)193831—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)200029—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)194229—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)194928—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)194327—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Carolene have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 513 people named Carolene, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carolene.
Is Carolene a male or female name?
Carolene is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
How common is the name Carolene?
In the United States, the national register counted 513 people named Carolene in 2020, about 1 in 648 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Carolene?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carolene

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carolene”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

See how Carolene parses inside a full name →